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HR templates for restaurants & food service

Offer letters, tip-pool acknowledgements, harassment policies that meet provincial requirements, and shift-management documents — built for restaurant owners who'd rather be cooking.

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Employment offer letter

A jurisdiction-aware full-time employment offer letter. Fillable, exportable as PDF or DOCX, free.

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Workplace harassment & violence policy

A statutorily required harassment, violence, and discrimination policy with jurisdiction-specific reporting language and statutory references.

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Disciplinary warning letter

A progressive-discipline warning letter (verbal, written, or final) that documents the conduct, the standard breached, the consequence, and the path back.

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What's hard about HR in this industry

High employee turnover and short-tenure terminations.
Tip pooling and gratuity-distribution rules that vary by province / state.
Workplace harassment is statistically more common in food service — the policy isn't optional.
Mix of full-time, part-time, and casual employment with different statutory entitlements.
Frequent split shifts and overtime classifications that diverge from a typical 9-to-5.

When you'd reach for these

Hiring a new server, line cook, or shift supervisor.
Documenting a uniform / dress code, tip-pool arrangement, or alcohol-service policy.
Handling an attendance, performance, or customer-complaint incident.
Closing out an employee who didn't make it through probation.

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Termination letter — without cause

A jurisdiction-aware without-cause termination letter that meets ESA / labour-standards minimums and preserves the employee's common-law rights.

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Time-off request

A simple, signable time-off request form covering vacation, sick, personal, and bereavement leave — with jurisdiction-aware entitlement notes.

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Code of conduct

A concrete code of conduct covering integrity, respect, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, and reporting channels — designed to be readable and enforceable.

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Drug & alcohol policy

A workplace drug and alcohol policy with the duty-to-accommodate language Canadian human-rights law requires, plus reasonable testing and reporting clauses.

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Workplace incident report

A workplace incident report capturing the facts of an injury, near-miss, or safety event. Designed to feed provincial workers'-comp / WSIB / WCB filings and OSHA recordkeeping.

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Bind these into a handbook

Pick the policies you need from the restaurants & food service list above and bind them into a single PDF or DOCX with a cover, table of contents, and page numbers.

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